fudge box

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Noun[edit]

fudge box (plural fudge boxes)

  1. (journalism, printing, historical) A mechanical contrivance into which linotype slugs containing late-breaking news are clamped.
  2. (journalism, by extension) A small blank area left in a newspaper layout for the insertion of late-breaking news.
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